Who's Making Your Dinner Arrangements?

This really struck me in my reading this week. It’s funny how you can find new things in the passages you’ve read so many times.

¹³ So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. ¹⁴Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ ¹⁵ He will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.” Mark 14:13-15 (NIV)

Jesus had everything prepared supernaturally for the last supper to happen. It’s not a new thought, really, as much as it is that we are usually focused differently when we read this.

What struck me about the passage is that this is the difference between having Jesus work out your plans – or you working out your own plans.

It reminded me that Jesus is able to do things that we can’t do. It’s not really a big deal either. It’s just a room with food.

But it’s another example of those ‘God-incidences” that are too amazing to be co-incidences.

Go – you will find a free room and dinner is waiting. He can make dinner reservations and have the food there and ready for free. I mean, he did it for 5,000+ with 5 loaves and 2 fish.

Jesus is able to do all of that. So as we’re thinking about our stewardship, I guess that’s part of the reason for me. It’s part of why we’re asked to tithe. To “honor the Lord with the firstfruits.”

Because as we do that we are demonstrating our trust for God to make the dinner arrangements and do miraculous things in our lives that can’t take place without him.

Psalm 37:5 (NLT)

⁵Commit everything you do to the Lord.
Trust Him, and He will help you.

How do we demonstrate that trust? Well for one thing, we bring the tithe back to the storehouse and watch him “throw open the floodgates” of blessing – of God-incidences in our life.

Jesus promised, “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Luke 6:38

Be Blessed,

Tim

Comments

[Eric]

good thoughts, particularly relevant as I try to make plans that will map out some things for me this next year and the years to come, thanks for helping me take a focus on looking for Jesus' "dinner arrangements".